Sleeve holder



SLEEVE HOLDER Filed May 4, 1929 INVENTOR.

Patented Mar. 8, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ALBERT'K AGI, OFSYRACUSE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE PROSPERITY COMPANY INC OF SYRACUSE,NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK SLEEVE HOLDER Application filed May4,

This invention relates to garment and laundry presses and has for itsobject a particularly simple and efficient means for holding one articleon the buck or lower pressing element of the machine from disarrangementafter being laid by the operator, while another article is being laid.The articles may be entirely different articles or parts of the samegarment as the sleeves of a shirt or other garment.

The invention consists in the novel features and in the combinations andconstructions hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In describing this invention, reference is had to the accompanyingdrawings, in which like characters designate corresponding parts in allthe views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a pressing machine embodying myinvention.

Figure 2 is an enlarged fragmentary perspective view.

Figure 3 is a plan view-of the buck and the work holder.

Figure 4 is a fragmentary detail view of the mounting for the workholder.

1 designates the buck or lower pressing element of a modern press. 2 isthe head cooperating with the buck. The buck is mounted on the frame 3of the machine in the usual manner, and the head is supported to movetoward andfrom the buck in any well known manner. The head is here shownas carried at the front end of a yoke lever or frame lever 4 pivotedbetween its ends at 5 to a standard 6 rising from the frame. It isactuated in any well known manner through mechanism connected to therear arm of the yoke lever. It is here illustrated as actuated by amotor comprising a cylinder 6 having a piston therein, the rod 7 ofwhich is connected by an angle lever 8 and link 8 to the rear arm of thelever 4... The piston is single acting and the press is opened, when thepressure in the cylinder is released, by countersprings 9, 10. The flowof motive fluid, as air, to and from the cylinder is controlled byvalves operated by a push button 11 and trip lever12. The actuatingmechanism forms no part of this invention. De-

pression of the push button 11 closes the press 1929. Serial No.860,515.

and operation of the lever 12 opens the press.

The work holder comprises a clamping member 14 having a jaw 15, theworking face of which' extends lengthwise of the rear )ortion of thebuck 1. The pressing face 0 the buck is convex and of the head concave.The clamping member 14 is located so that its jaw swings down on thebuck.

The jaw 15 is here shown as carried at the front ends of overhangingarms 16. The clamping member is pivoted at 17 at a point below the rearedge of the buck or in therear of the vertical plane of the lengthwisezone or locality of the buck with which the jaw coacts, so that the jawcomes down on the work on the buck.

The pivot shaft 17 is'mounted in suitable bearings 18 on the frame. Theclamping member is actuated by a pedal 19 pivoted at 20 to the machineframe and connected by a link 21 to a rock arm 22 on the pivot shaft 17.

The actuation of the pedal 19 is against the action of a returningspring 23.

In operation, the operator first stretches and lays .one article, as thesleeve 24 of a shirt, on the rear part of the buck 1 (see Figure 3) andthen while holding it stretched, depresses the pedal 19 to bring the jaw15 over onto the article to holdit from disarranging. He then lays theother article or sleeve on the buck and depresses the push button 11 toclose the press and at the same time releases the pedal 19 so that thesprin 23 reacts and moves the jaw to its norma position.

Owing to the relative arrangement of the pivot 17 and the jaw 15, thejaw moves rearwardly out of the path of the head and does not encounterthe head while the head is closing, if the push button 11 is operated,aid the pedal 19 released at approximately the same time. During theclosing of the press, there is not time for either article to becomedisarranged. These artcles are damp but adhere to the padding on thebuck, and when stretched out on the buck preparatory to becomedisarranged while the other article operative or sleeve was being laid.

By my work holder, the article first laid is held temporarily fromdisarranging while the other article is being laid.

What I claim is:

1. In a pressing machine comprising upper and lower cooperating pressingelements, one of which is mounted on a pivoted lever for movement towardand from the other; the combination of a clamping member for holding onearticle in laid position on the lower pressing element while anotherarticle is being positioned thereon, means behind the lower pressingelement on which the clamping member is mounted for forward move-- menttransverse to the path of the movable ressing element into operativeposition adacent the rear edge of the lower pressing element, andrearward movement out of the path of the movable pressing element; and

means for operating the clampingmember,

2. In a pressing machine comprlsing upper and lower cooperating pressingelements, one of which is movable toward and from the other, thecombination of a clamping member for holding one article in laidposition on the lower pressing element while another article is beinglaid thereon, said clamping member being long and relatively narrow,means mounting said clamping member in the rear of the lower pressing ee into clamping position with its long dimension extending lengthwise ofthe lower pressing element adjacent the rear edge thereof.

3. In a pressing machine comprising upper and lower cooperating pressingelements, one of 'which is movable toward and from the other, thecombination of a long and relatively narrow clamping member for holdingone article in laid position on the lower pressin element while anotherarticle is being lai thereon, a pedal for moving said member intoposition with its long dimension extending along the length of the buckadjacent its rear edge, and a spring ,Eor moving said member out ofoperative position and out of the path of the movable pressing element.

4. In a pressing machine in combination cooperative pressing elementsione of which is movable toward'and from the other; a clamping devicefor holding one article in laid position on the fixed pressing elementwhile another article is being laid and positioned thereon, saidclamping device including a long and relatively narrow holder forcontacting with the article adjacent the rear edge of the fixed pressingelement an arm carrying said holder, a mounting behind and below therear edge of the fixed movable pressing element, with the long dimensionof the holder extending along the length of the fixed pressing element,a pivotal connection ment for movement the arm to swing to move theholder forward day of May, 1929.

L ALBERT KAGI.

between the mounting and the arm to permit CERTIFICATE or CORRECTION. I

Patent No. 1,848,177. Y Granted March 8, 1932, r0

ALBERT KAGIV.

It is hereby certified that error appears inthep'rintedspecification ofthe above numbered patent requiring correctionas follows: Page 2,-line'6l, claim' 4, strike out the Word "fixed" and insert the samebefore "pressing" in line 67, 'and lines 62'to 64, strike out the wordsand comma "with the long dimension of the holder extending along thelength of the fixed pressing element," and insert the same to follow thesyllable ".ment" in line 68, ofsame claiin; and that the said LettersPatent should be read with these corrections therein that the same mayconform to the record of the casein the Patent Office.

Signed'and sealed this 12th day of "April, A. D. 1932.

MI J, Moore,

(Seal) Acting Connnissioner of Patents.

